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Hans Geiger
Johannes Wilhelm "Hans" Geiger was a German physicist. He is best known as the co-inventor of the detector component of the Geiger counter and for the Geiger–Marsden experiment which discovered the atomic nucleus. He was the brother of meteorologist and climatologist Rudolf Geiger... Read More
Born | 30 September 1882 Neustadt an der Haardt, Palatinate, German Empire |
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Died | 24 September 1945 (aged 62) Potsdam, Germany |
Nationality | German |
Fields | Physics and sciences |